Vehicle Performance Engineering

Vehicle Performance Engineering

Vehicle performance is the study of the motion of a vehicle. The motion of any vehicle depends upon all the forces and moments that act upon it. These forces and moments, for the most part are caused by interaction of the vehicle with the surrounding medium(s) such as air or water (e.g. fluid static and dynamic forces), gravitational attraction (gravity forces), Earth’s surface (support, ground, or landing gear forces), and on-board energy consuming devices such as rocket, turbojet, piston engine and propellers (propulsion forces). Consequently, in order to fully understand the performance problem, it is necessary to study and, in some way, characterize these interacting forces.

How To Build An Electric Vehicle?

How To Build An Electric Vehicle?

Disruption in the Automotive and Transportation industry is well under way. How we get from Point A to Point B is being reinvented due to increasing urbanization. This is driving the convergence of autonomous, electrification, connectivity and shared transportation systems rapidly. Auto OEMs and suppliers have to develop and execute new business models to prevent becoming obsolete as these mega trends unfold and technology innovation increases exponentially. The race is on for Auto OEM’s and suppliers to transform their business and provide multimodal mobility services for the future of mobility.

Simcenter Simulation: The Key to Make Safe Autonomous Vehicles

Simcenter Simulation: The Key to Make Safe Autonomous Vehicles

As vehicles become more automated with advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), development and validation testing conditions need to be defined. Which scenarios should be considered for ADAS and future autonomous vehicles (AVs)? How can a large number of potential driving situations be considered and how can the most critical ones be identified? Can verification and validation (V&V) be managed in a realistic timeframe and at an acceptable cost? This blog post highlights a process applied during vehicle development, and discusses the support Siemens Digital Industries Software and ETS Solutions Asia engineering services team can provide.

NVH Testing for Automotive

NVH Testing for Automotive

NVH, which stands for Noise, Vibration, and Harshness, is the study of the noise and modification vibration characteristics of vehicles and is basically a measure of how much unpleasant aural and tactile feedback the vehicles deliver as you drive. NVH testing enables early recognition of NVH phenomena, which can then be avoided early during the development stage of the powertrain. This later makes driving in the production vehicle more comfortable and serves to avoid complaints and a loss of image.

Acoustic Testing

Acoustic Testing

Acoustic Testing is performed to determine if the material can resist the specified Acoustic environment. It must resist this environment without degradation of its functional performance and/or structural integrity. Acoustic Testing or Acoustic Emission Testing is the measurement of sound emissions radiating from the equipment under test. In other words, how loud is the equipment?

HALT/HASS Testing Guidance

HALT/HASS Testing Guidance

This paper will give you guideline all about HALT/HASS Testing, from definitions, the difference, applications and industries that should involve/conducting HALT/HASS Testing, and this paper also include with Test Equipment for your organization to conduct HALT/HASS Testing.

MIL-STD-810 Testing Guideline

MIL-STD-810 Testing Guideline

MIL-STD-810 standard contains test methods and planning for engineering direction for considering the influences that environmental stresses have on material, products or equipment through every phase of their service life. Used by the U.S. military to test product limits and capabilities that the product will experience throughout its life, MIL-STD-810 testing is also used as a standard for rugged commercial products.

Maximising Battery Life Checklist

Maximising Battery Life Checklist

This report outlines some of the most common cell failures and suggests preventative measures which need to be considered when specifying cells for a new battery application.

Vibration Testing on Shakers

Vibration Testing on Shakers

Vibration Testing is one such environmental test critical to the design process. All closed-loop vibration tests, consists of four main components: a vibration controller, an amplifier, a shaker, and a feedback sensor, together, these four components make up a vibration testing system. ETS Solutions Asia instruments vibration controllers control electrodynamic and hydraulic shakers from tabletop to warehouse size systems.

Definition of Reliability and Validity

Definition of Reliability and Validity

Reliability and Validity these two terms are sometimes used interchangeably in research and evaluations. Reliability and validity are concepts used to evaluate the quality of research. They indicate how well a method, technique or test measures something. Reliability is about the consistency of a measure, and validity is about the accuracy of a measure.

Finding the longest lasting design faster

Finding the longest lasting design faster

The first is a hybrid approach, integrating test and simulation for realistic road-load prediction, even for loads that cannot be measured. And the second is a digital road approach, running a comprehensive virtual model on a digital track when test data is unavailable. Additionally, it considers new emerging technologies, such as composites and additive manufacturing.

Test based durability engineering for Automotive and Transportation

Test based durability engineering for Automotive and Transportation

If you are new to the topic of test based durability engineering in Automotive and Transportation industry let’s start with a few durability fundamentals that introduces the base concepts, terminology and essential engineering insights to know.

Simcenter road load data acquisition solution

Simcenter road load data acquisition solution

How do engineers figure out just how many potholes, mud puddles, bumpy gravel roads and kilometers of highway driving your car or truck can withstand over a lifetime? This is where road load data acquisition (RLDA) comes in.

Make Autonomous Vehicles Safe - White Paper

Make Autonomous Vehicles Safe - White Paper

This white paper provides insight into Siemens Digital Industries Software’s solution to verify and validate high-integrity systems operating in autonomous environments, on a mass scale and across the entire system of systems.